Kumbaa

app.kumbaaPublished by kumbaa.appOfficial publisherv1.0.0Updated Nov 1, 2026

A private family archive: family tree, life stories, photos and albums, for your family only.

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Server details

Identifier: app.kumbaa/kumbaa
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Runtime: Web executable
Trust: Verified
Published: Nov 1, 2026

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Overview

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Kumbaa connects an AI assistant to a private family archive so it can answer questions about the family tree, life stories and photos, and let curators edit…

What you can do: List and switch between the family archives you belong to, with your role in each
Browse the family tree: list people, read one person's dates, places, story, links and photos
Explore photo albums, find photos by caption, place, person or album, and view a single photo
Curators can add or update people, link relatives, set portraits and the tree's starting person
Curators can caption, tag, upload, move and delete photos and albums, including bulk edits
Curators can list members, invite relatives by email, change roles, revoke invitations and remove access
When to use it: Useful when you want to ask an assistant about your own family's history, people and photographs in plain language, or when a family curator wants to add relatives, caption photos or manage invitations without opening the website.
Requirements: A remote Streamable HTTP endpoint; nothing to install and no API key. You need a Kumbaa account already in a family archive, and you sign in through OAuth 2.1 (Clerk) and approve the connection the first time a tool is used. Editing tools require the owner or curator role. A family archive is free for 14 days, then US$6.99 a month or US$69 a year per family.

Before you install

The assistant acts as your Kumbaa account with the role you hold in each family, so it can read private family data and, as a curator, add, change or delete people, photos, albums, links and members. Deleting people, photos, albums, links or members and removing access are destructive and the server asks for confirmation first. Invitations send email to relatives. Ownership transfer, archive deletion, backups and face detection stay on the website.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Kumbaa in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

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Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kumbaa": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kumbaa.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

[Kumbaa]

Kumbaa MCP server

Your family archive in any AI assistant. Kumbaa is a private website for one family: its family tree, the life stories of the people in it, and its old photographs, seen only by the relatives the family invites. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or any app that speaks the Model Context Protocol to ask about your family, look at its photos, and, if you look after the archive, add people, link them into the tree, caption and tag photos, and invite relatives.

It's a hosted, remote server (Streamable HTTP). There's nothing to install and no API key. The first time a tool is used, you sign in with the same Kumbaa account you use on your family's website and approve the connection. One connection reaches every family archive you belong to, with the role you have in each.

This repository holds connection instructions and configuration only. The Kumbaa service and its server code are not here.

Before you connect

You need a Kumbaa account that's already in a family archive. Sign in once on your family's website (<family>.kumbaa.app) with the email address you were invited with, or start an archive at kumbaa.app. The assistant then acts as that account. If you haven't done this, every tool tells you to sign in on the website first.

Try asking

"Who were my great-grandparents on my father's side?"
"Tell me about Nani: when was she born, and who were her children?"
"Find the photos from the 1965 wedding, and who's in them."
"Show me the photo of the old family house."
"Add my cousin Priya, born 1990, as Ravi and Meena's daughter." (curators)
"Caption these three photos and put them in the Diwali album." (curators)
"Invite [email protected] to the family as a viewer." (curators)

Connect it

App	How
Claude (web, desktop, mobile)	Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → `https://kumbaa.app/mcp`. Step by step: kumbaa.app/claude.
ChatGPT	Add it as an app with the URL above (Developer mode, on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu). Step by step: kumbaa.app/chatgpt.
Claude Code	`claude mcp add --transport http kumbaa https://kumbaa.app/mcp`, then `/mcp` to sign in.
VS Code (Copilot)	Command palette → MCP: Add Server → HTTP → `https://kumbaa.app/mcp`, or copy clients/vscode-mcp.json to `.vscode/mcp.json`.
Gemini CLI	`gemini extensions install https://github.com/sanjaybhagia/kumbaa-mcp`, then `/mcp auth kumbaa`.
Codex CLI	Add clients/codex-config.toml to `~/.codex/config.toml`, then `codex mcp login kumbaa`.
Cursor	Settings → MCP → Add server, or copy mcp.json to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`. See Auth details.
Windsurf	Add clients/windsurf-mcp_config.json to `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`.
Anything else	Point it at `https://kumbaa.app/mcp`. For apps that only run local (stdio) servers, see llms-install.md.

Tools

Everyone in a family can use the reading tools. The tools that change things work for the family's owner and curators; a viewer who tries one is told that only curators can.

Tool	What it does
`list_families`	The family archives you belong to, your role in each, and which one is current.
`switch_family`	Make another of your family archives the current one.
`list_people`	Everyone in a family tree, or those matching a name, with dates, parents, partners and children.
`get_person`	One person's profile: names, dates, places, story, family links and photos.
`list_albums`	A family's photo albums, with years and photo counts.
`get_album`	One album and its photos, with who is in each.
`find_photos`	Find photos by caption, place, person or album, or those still missing a detail.
`view_photo`	Look at one photo, with its caption, year, place and the people in it.
`add_person`	Add someone to the family tree.
`update_person`	Change someone's details.
`remove_person`	Remove someone from the tree (their photos stay). Asks first.
`link_people`	Add or remove a parent, child, spouse or sibling link. Removing asks first.
`update_marriage`	A marriage's date, place and story.
`set_tree_start`	The person the family tree opens on.
`set_portrait`	Use a photo as someone's portrait.
`update_photo`	Change a photo's caption, year, place, album or the people in it, or share it with the family.
`update_photos`	The same change to many photos at once.
`upload_photo`	Add a photo from an image URL or file. It waits for a curator unless shared straight away.
`delete_photo`	Delete a photo for good. Asks first.
`save_album`	Create an album, or change one.
`delete_album`	Delete an album; its photos stay. Asks first.
`list_members`	Who is in the family archive, and who has been invited.
`invite_people`	Invite relatives by email, as viewers or curators.
`revoke_invitation`	Take back an invitation nobody has used.
`change_member_role`	Make a member a curator or a viewer.
`remove_member`	Take someone's access away. Asks first.
`rename_family`	Change the family archive's name.

Every tool has a title and read-only or destructive annotations. Anything that removes people, photos, albums, family links or members needs the person's clear yes, and the server asks the assistant to get it first. Handing over ownership, deleting a family archive, backups and face detection stay on the website.

Privacy

Each call is checked against your membership of that family at that moment, exactly as on the website. A family you aren't in looks the same as one that doesn't exist. See the privacy policy.

Plans

A family archive is free for 14 days, then US$6.99 a month or US$69 a year, per family. Everyone the family invites joins free. Connecting an assistant costs nothing extra. See kumbaa.app/pricing.

Auth details

OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (S256), public clients. The authorization server is https://clerk.kumbaa.app (Clerk).
Clients identify themselves with a client ID metadata document (CIMD, client_id_metadata_document_supported: true). Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT use it; VS Code and Gemini CLI say they support it too. Dynamic client registration is on as well (registration_endpoint: https://clerk.kumbaa.app/oauth/register), for Cursor, mcp-remote and other apps that only use it.
Discovery: an unauthenticated request gets 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="https://kumbaa.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp". Also https://kumbaa.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and https://kumbaa.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.
Access tokens are issued for exactly https://kumbaa.app/mcp (the aud claim). A website session token, or a token for any other address, is refused.
Official MCP Registry name: app.kumbaa/kumbaa (server.json).

Links

kumbaa.app · Features · Claude · ChatGPT · Pricing · Privacy · Terms · Support · [email protected]

Made in Sydney by Arigato Consulting Pty Ltd. The files in this repository are MIT licensed; see LICENSE.

Source: README.md at commit ed4895e

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